Times our fans have acted daft

The damage to the snack bar and rioting at Shrewsbury in 1986 - possible 5 years of frustration came out that afternoon - relegated that afternoon to the old Division 3.
 
viv_andersons_nana said:
This is what I was going to post. It was absolutely excruciating hearing people singing that to someone who’d been missing in action for large swathes of that season. It was an insult to those that gave their best every week. That squad had a few shirkers in it but the reason we went down was a general lack of quality, not a lack of effort.
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He was like a headless chicken, chasing down players on his own, which would have actually been detrimental to the team, if we hadn't been set up to press the opposition that day.

If you don't press as a team then you ending up leaving gaps.
 
viv_andersons_nana said:
I was daft when we played Sunderland at home in the 1997/98 season. During the warm-up I was standing in my usual position, at the bottom of the east stand level with the halfway line, and the Sunderland players were doing their run across the pitch in a line. As they ran towards the east stand, I thought it’d be so cool to give the w*nker gesture to Kevin Ball. Ball obviously disagreed and I felt myself burning up as he didn’t turn around with the rest of the Sunderland team, he carried on jogging towards the east stand and looking me directly in the eye.

He came right up the advertising hoarding and said “what was that you were saying?” and I absolutely bricked it. I said I was only joking though obviously stopped short of saying ‘because I’m a complete sh*thouse’ (I was only 15, but still). Our Mam then stepped in - God, the embarrassment - and said, “come on, you must get that every away game,” and Ball said “what are you trying to say?” and then our Mam panicked because she didn’t mean everyone thinks you’re a w*nker, she meant away fans give you grief everywhere.

Anyway he said do it again and I’ll have you thrown out and I mumbled something, and then he jogged off. I called him a ‘tw*t under my breath and spent the remainder of the warm-up ashen-faced, incredibly quiet and deeply embarrassed.
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Painful read that. 🤣
 
viv_andersons_nana said:
I was daft when we played Sunderland at home in the 1997/98 season. During the warm-up I was standing in my usual position, at the bottom of the east stand level with the halfway line, and the Sunderland players were doing their run across the pitch in a line. As they ran towards the east stand, I thought it’d be so cool to give the w*nker gesture to Kevin Ball. Ball obviously disagreed and I felt myself burning up as he didn’t turn around with the rest of the Sunderland team, he carried on jogging towards the east stand and looking me directly in the eye.

He came right up the advertising hoarding and said “what was that you were saying?” and I absolutely bricked it. I said I was only joking though obviously stopped short of saying ‘because I’m a complete sh*thouse’ (I was only 15, but still). Our Mam then stepped in - God, the embarrassment - and said, “come on, you must get that every away game,” and Ball said “what are you trying to say?” and then our Mam panicked because she didn’t mean everyone thinks you’re a w*nker, she meant away fans give you grief everywhere.

Anyway he said do it again and I’ll have you thrown out and I mumbled something, and then he jogged off. I called him a ‘tw*t under my breath and spent the remainder of the warm-up ashen-faced, incredibly quiet and deeply embarrassed.
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Fair play I’d take that one with me to the grave 😂
 
Fans disgusting aggression to Karanka et al away at Stoke City in March 2017 and Mowbray at Barnsley October 2013. Embarrassing.
 
I've just remembered the infamous AJT interview, following a defeat away at Leeds.

"This ground is like me Grandad's shed mate, old, rotten and dead, just like your fans"

"You're awful, so is your Mam"
 
The_Lizards_Jumpers said:
It started far before the Leeds & Newcastle rumours surfaced.
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McClaren was a 'Wilder' of his day and touted himself for every big job. Our run to the Euro final was brilliant but god he/we got lucky along the way and even though he is our only successful manager in lifting silverware, I have very little time for him and wouldn't give him a push down a slide.

I've slagged him off and still do at every opportunity but never bood him.

Now if you talked about Lenny Laurence in that way, I would have to stop you in your tracks.

I was once at Coventry when we used to stand in the corner next to the player's entrance and it was when they had just introduced the £1,000 fine for entering the playing area.

The Boro were getting beat or the game wasn't going our way and Lenny took off a forward and brought a midfielder/defender on. The Boro fans couldn't believe it and we were all going crazy. At the end of the game Lenny is about to make his way to the tunnel and I jump on the cinder track and verbally lace into him. Within seconds my arms up my back and two burly stewards have got hold of me. Lenny intervenes and says let him have his say. The two stewards leave go of me and I carry on my rant toward Lenny, giving him it with both barrels. When I finished, Lenny explained his decision on the substitution and how he felt the game would change if we could nullify their attack. After he finished, Lenny shook my hand, made sure I was put back in the stands without getting arrested and wished me a safe journey home.

I had gone from thinking he was a tool to telling everyone what a nice man he was. Every time I see or hear of Lenny, I always smile and think of how I made a complete fool of myself. 🤣 🤣 🤣
 
MickaelDebevePhenomenal said:
Booing Robbo when he came onto the pitch end of the season before he was sacked. Shameful
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I felt really sorry for Robbo as the way some of our fans acted towards the end was ridiculous considering the years that we had with him in charge

i also remember him getting hit on the head with a ball thrown deliberately back in from the west stand around this time

also some fans tried to unravel a "robbo out" banner in the north stand but were swiftly dealt with by other fans in the stand
 
Centralscrutinizer said:
Schwarzer. Our best ever keeper and one of the best in premier league history was never good enough for a large minority of our fans, mainly based on his kicks not quite going far enough.
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There was always a vocal minority who "genuinely believed" Mark Crossley should have been our first choice.

Nothing against Crossley; decent keeper and probably the best back up we've had in my time following Boro, but he wasn't in the same class. He also has an excellent selection of Brian Clough impressions/anecdotes that are well worth looking up on YouTube
 
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